Research Paper On Masculinity

The doing gender perspective may be similar to the socialization theory covered during lectures and readings but they are in fact different. The gender socialization theory is when you are taught your social expectations and how you form into your gender roles. How doing gender differentiates from the socialization theory, is if these gender expectations are embedded into individuals or if they choose to take a different stance on what they want their gender expectations to be. In some situations, parents may play a role in gender socialization. Some believe that if their child is biologically a girl they only get to wear girl clothes and play with girl toys. Other parents want their child to decide what they like to play with and what they like to wear, not limiting their child to anything. They are okay with the idea that if they grow up wanting to be a male they can and vise-versa.
These individuals call themselves transgender. In the book, Just One of The Guys, many transgender individuals describe the experiences they went through during their transition from female to male. Being transgender is hard within itself, but going through the transition in today’s society does not make being transgender any easier for the many individuals experiencing this life change. There are options one may choose while being transgender. Some choose to go through surgical procedures, some take testosterone to enhance their masculinity, and some choose not to make any of these changes at all but still identify as transgender. Schilt discusses in chapter two that the process of testosterone can take up to months or even a year until you see full results (Schilt). Imagine the obstacles these individuals face during that